I've been a viewer Booktube for almost a year now and I get the sense that it's
such a warm and welcoming community where everyone just has conversations
about books. It's very easy going by the looks of it and I just wanted to be part of it
Hi everyone and welcome back to Foibles
and Fancies. I wanted to do a tag video today and since I'm new to Booktube and
Youtube in general, I thought that I would do one of the newbie tags. Now there
are a couple of new to booktube or book to newbie tags going out there, so I
couldn't really decide which one I wanted to do, so I'm doing them both!
So, one is called a Booktube Newbie Tag, and that was done by Brenda C, and the other
is the New to Booktube Tag by Between Chapters. Here we go.
And onto the Booktube Newbie Tag.
Question 1: why did you start this channel? I have been watching Booktube
for almost a year now and I've absolutely loved the conversations that
have gone on in the comments and the discussions that have taken place on
film and I really wanted to be a part of it. In addition, I just rekindled my love
for reading last year and I wanted a way to keep myself accountable. So, having to
show my face here on YouTube every so often was a great way to do so.
Question number 2 is what are some fun and unique things you can bring to booktube?
Wow, I don't really know how to answer this question so I'm just gonna move on.
Question 3 is what are you most excited for about this new channel? What are you
most excited about for this new channel? The thing I'm most excited about is
actually interacting with everyone out there. I think that is the strongest
point to being on booktube is all the interaction that we get to have with each other.
Question 4 is why do you love reading? I think there are many reasons
why I enjoy reading. I'm the kinda a person who likes to experience all kinds of things,
and I know that I'm not going to be able to in my own life, and frankly there are
some things that I only want to experience through reading. Reading
allows a person to see from someone else's point of view and I think that's
a wonderful thing. There are so many people from different walks of life out
there, and it's so easy to get stuck in your own world that it's a really good
thing to sometimes open up a book and just read about someone else's fictional
life sometimes or even nonfiction and and just to get some other perspectives
out there - broaden your mind a little bit. Question 5 is what book or book
series got you into reading? My first sort of foray into reading was Enid
Blyton. I think I read all of her books. So, Up the Faraway Tree, the Famous Five,
the Secret Seven, Malory Towers, some boarding school called St Clare's... I
think... Anyway, all of her books. I just *gob gob gob* ate them all up when I was really
young. When I was in primary school, I picked up the Sweet Valley Twins and
then I moved on to Sweet Valley High. So I did spend a lot of time reading Sweet
Valley. Question 6 is what questions would you ask your favorite booktuber?
There are a handful of booktubers that I absolutely adore and do not miss any of
their videos. I think it would be more about how they make their channel and
all the things that go on behind the scenes. I'm really intrigued by that part
of it and I am so thankful for Reads and Daydreams for putting together that How
to Start a Booktube channel series. It's a great guide and very practical I loved it.
Thank You Lauren!
Question 7 is what
challenges do you think starting a booktube channel will be the hardest to
overcome? I think, for me, it'll be balancing everything. I really want to be
able to post videos regularly, but I know that they're going to be times at work
where I'm just gonna be so overwhelmed with work-related things and I'll have
no spare time to do any videoing let alone editing, so that's something I'm
gonna have to figure out how to do. I mean, I know there are a
bunch of other working booktubers out there so
I know I'm not special. But, you know, I'll have to figure out a way to work around
that and, you know, I'll probably have to queue some videos up and schedule them
to come out on a regular basis just be.. just before busy season starts.
Things along those lines. On to the New to Booktube Tag. First question is where are
you joining us from? I'm coming to you today from Southern Ontario in Canada,
specifically the Niagara Peninsula, so I'm right on Lake Ontario. The next
question is: how old are you?
The light just changed... I wasn't sure I wanted to answer this question at first, but I'm
thirty-five. The son just disappeared now! Anyways, on to question 3: why did I
join booktube? I enjoy trying new things and even if they scare me just a little
bit, I'm game for it. The idea of putting my face out there for the world to see,
to sit in front of a... to sit in front of a camera and just like look at that
little lens... it's it's all a little awkward! But, you know, it's something that
I would like to get used to. Avoiding trying to look at myself up on that
screen. I also enjoy learning new skills so presentation skills I think is
something that everyone can brush up on, and here I am, trying to brush up on mine.
You know, hopefully I'll get more fluid with speaking in front of a camera. I'm...
I would say that I'm already quite comfortable speaking in front of an
audience, but a camera is so different to an audience, you know, there's there's no...
there's no one in that tiny little screen saying "yeah go" or, you know, giving
you cues with questions you might have. This whole film editing process has been
quite the new development for me too. I was completely new to it and it's it's
been fun learning how to do various things. I mean one of my videos had text
along the top because it was... because my video is blurry and it's just neat
learning how to do all those things, because I had no idea. I mean, I'm pretty clueless
when it comes to these things. But I can learn! ...and my battery died. Complete
newbie fail. Anyways take two in filming my Booktube Newbie tag and my New to
Booktube tag. Question 4 is: what is the meaning behind your channel name? So
a little bit of a long story here. About six years ago, I started a book blog and
I called it This Week's Pairings, and my idea behind that channel was that I was
going to review a book pair it with either wine or a cheese and
do a bit of a double review. I was very ambitious calling it with This Week's
Pairings and pigeon holing myself into book reviews specifically. And I also ran
out of teas and there was only so much I could do with that so I abandoned ship and
renamed the page Fables Foibles and Fancies. After a while, I started actually
blogging about things that weren't book related so I decided to cut off the
Fables and just call it Foibles and Fancies. I figured I could include books
in that anyways because they are my fancies, but that is the evolution of
Foibles and Fancies. Question 5 is: what type of books do you read or want to
talk about here? I would say my favorite type of books to read would be adult
contemporary fiction. I particularly like books about immigration or moving or
being nomadic. Generally, books with a sense of... generally books that have a
sense of belonging or finding it. I find those books to be very interesting. Maybe
because I've found myself in that situation more times than I can remember. I also
tend to gravitate toward books that are set in places that I've never been to or
...or I don't know very much about. So, I both like reading about things that
are similar to myself and I also like reading about things that are not like me.
Question 6 is: who are your favorite authors? I would say my top author is
Anne Rice. I think I've read almost all of her books. I adored the Vampire
Chronicles and also enjoyed the Mayfair witches books. There was that period
where she got a little bit religious, that I did not really get into. Anne Rice
is definitely up there as an author that I can name. Now, there are many other
books that I have thoroughly enjoyed written by other people, but I may have
loved one of their books and not really liked another book, so there's there's no
consistency there. Question 7 is: what's the last book you read? The last book I
read was The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. Question 8 is: what are you
currently reading? I always have two books on the go one audio book and
one either ebook or a physical book. The audio book that I'm currently reading is
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie and the e-book that I have on the go is
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty. Question 9 is: what you use for bookmarks?
I wish I used pretty bookmarks. I'd love to get some, but I don't have them.
Anyways, I often use little scraps of papers.
If the book comes with a dust jacket, I tend to use that as a bookmark. Receipts if
it's a library book. Library books often come with a receipt with when you need
to return the books by and I often use that. I'm resourceful when it comes to
bookmarks. Question 10 is: show us your current TBR pile! I'm not gonna do that
because most of my books and my e-reader...
but one sec.
I do have a TBR pile from the library and... I don't know if you can see that, but
these are it. So, I've got Shrill by Lindy West, Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan,
I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong and The Dragon Behind the Glass by Emily Voigt.
I actually have the audio book for I Contain Multitudes as well, so I'll
probably just listen to the audio book. Question 11 is all about preferences, so
here they are: hardcover or paperback? Usually hardcover,
because like I said before I use the dust jacket as a bookmark, but I also like trade
paperbacks because they're lighter. I'm not a huge fan of mass-market paperbacks...
I think that's what they're called... they're the the shorter fatter ones. And
then, this is a great segue, because I actually do prefer e-books over physical
books, um and that's just space wise. like I.. there was a time when I liked
amassing things but, uh, I'm at a stage in my life right now where I
just wanna clear the clutter, and that includes books. But it doesn't mean I
want to stop reading books, so I just use my e-reader most of the time. Next one is
owning or borrowing? I don't really have a preference, I mean if it's a... if it's a
book that I just want to try, I'll borrow it from the library. Otherwise if I see
it and I like the sounds of it I'll pick it up. Question 13 is: how did you
discover booktube? I actually have a very clear
recollection of how I discovered booktube. I remember being on the
armchair one morning thinking about ways that I could be more productive in life,
and, you know, those things like morning routines and waking up, waking up earlier,
getting some exercise in, yada yada yada. but being the crazy procrastinated that I am,
I actually went down the rabbit hole of bullet journaling and I watched a ton of
bullet journaling videos (and they're a lot of fun by the way) but there are some
book tubers out there who also bullet journal, and the first book tuber I
stumbled across was Lauren Elwood, and she's based in South Africa and talks
about a lot of books that are set in or written by African authors. And then I
realized that people talk about books on YouTube, and I went down that rabbit hole
and I have been there ever since, and here I am now, in my own little burrow.
Question 15 is: where else can we find you? I am on Instagram at FoiblesandFancies,
I'm also on Goodreads with the handle FoiblesandFancies. I do have a
Twitter handle called FoiblesandFancies that I haven't started really
using yet, so if you're on Twitter and love using it, feel free to interact with
me on it and get me started. So that's my first tag video for you guys. I hope you
enjoyed it, and if you did please like this video and consider subscribing. Like
I've said a couple of times now, I hope to be consistent with posting videos on
here for you to watch. I hope you have a great day and I'll see you again next time.
Bye!
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